41 Advancing to Rank 1 (1/2)

Erick had his Spirit Mind focused on Zatiel and the rest, and got confused when he saw how no one tries to stop him. But the moment he saw how Zatiel snapped his fingers, a feeling of absolute danger appear and before he could figure out the origin, inside his stomach a small sphere started to glow before it exploded destroying all the organs in his abdomen.

”When did...” That attack was more than Erick could withstand, the ball of flames at his feet vanished and he falls from the sky.

Before he crashed to the ground chains appeared and cover his body, bringing him to Zatiel

”We need to leave before someone else arrives,” Zatiel picks the cocoon, and left the place with Sophia and Ezequiel.

When they were at a safe distance Zatiel concentrate all the power of his Ring of Abyssal Fire on his hand and throws an immense Fire Ball to the place of the fight, immediately black flames exploded in the area and started to consume everything in his surroundings, as they expanded.

...

A couple of hours later a man shows up in the sky where the fight happened and started to assess the flames that continue to burn it all in its reach.

The man generates and vortex of green wind and starts to suction all the oxygen in the surroundings, but even then the flames continue burning, although in a weaker way.

Jhon concentrates his energy and blades of winds started to destroy everything finally managing to turn off the fire.

´Since when Erick has been able to use this type of flame,´ Jhon never thought that the spell could be caused by an apprentice, after all, despite the flames not been too powerful they were persistent and propagated easily.

As he appraises the area, he became disappointed, the fire has destroyed everything an trying to get evidence from here was impossible.

´Forget it, I guess your got lucky old man´ Jhon returned to the tower, thinking that the death of Zatiel and his group was a sure thing.

...

After two weeks of travel Zatiel, Ezequiel and Sophia managed to reach the frozen lake. Thanks to the medicines of Sophia and his physique Zatiel left arm has grown back and he was again in perfect shape.

Zatiel was assessing the cocoon and the status of the Magus inside it. Erick was in a comatose state and all his skin was green, but even so, his injuries have healed a lot and his stomach didn't longer have that huge hole in it.

´It was more effective than I thought.´

What created the explosion on Erick's stomach and the poison on his body was a small sphere that Zatiel manages to deposit when his hand manage to pierce him during the fight. The sphere had explosion and stealth abilities and was the combination of the ones he obtained from Cristian and Arthur´s group, the damage was so great that generated the current state of the Magus.

”Let's enter!” Zatiel breaks the surface of the frozen lake, and cover himself in dark flames before submerging in the water.

Ezequiel and Sophia do the same with their spells and follow him. From the three, the one who had the easiest was the woman, after all, even before being a Neo-Demon, she had a domain over the water natural energy and now instead of the coldness the men were feeling, what she felt was just comfort.

After submerging themself 50 meters they arrived at a submarine cave, this was the entrance to the Laboratory of the Ancient Magus.

After advancing for a couple of hours they arrived at two massive doors that were broken, pieces of magical equipment and some shattered vials with blood were in front of them.

Zatiel stars to assess the broken doors and the things that were in the ground.

”You didn't advance pass this point, right?”

”No, the vial with the blood I show you are the only thing I found here that wasn't broken, I didn't dare to enter more.” Sophia was looking at the door and now she knows how lucky she was of not going further, as her instinct as a Neo-Demon is alerting her of a threat.

”By what I can tell, someone came here before, whoever it was, his power was superior to the one of a rank 1 Magus by the mark he made on the doors when he destroys them, but I guess he died during the exploration or else this place would have already being occupied.” Seeing the marks on the door and the material they were created, Zatiel was able to make an educated guess.

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”If even a Rank 2 Magus could die here, then that means it is impossible to explore?” Ezequiel knows that even though they were able to defeat a rank 1 Magus, thas was only because they planned everything, and against a rank 2 being they have no chance in a confrontation.

”Not necessarily, those marks have hundreds of years, and the defensive protocol is surely defective after all this time, we must evaluate everything as we advance. I will enter first.” Zatiel put his armor on and cover himself with chains as he advanced to the door.